NewCharlesInCharge
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NewCharlesInCharge
7d ago
It wouldn’t eliminate the problem, but the proctored exams could filter out many of the people who wouldn’t be able to hack it but for cheating.
Or maybe even force them to learn how not to cheat.
NewCharlesInCharge
30d ago
This is almost exactly the Good Friday liturgy in my Catholic parish. Though we all come forward to line up and personally adore the cross how we see fit, typically touching it, offering a prayer, and making the sign of the cross.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
At Facebook our version of this was called The Weekly Push and typically was promoting some new dev tooling.
I miss those days, I don’t think the name would get past our censorious overlords now.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
Years ago my big tech employer did a terrible job at planning restrooms in a new building we moved in. They didn’t accommodate for how male skewed we are and ended with a situation where the ratio of women to fixtures was something like 5:1 and for men it was around 50:1.
Every time I needed a toilet I found myself bouncing to different floors to find an unoccupied stall.
In one corner of one floor we had layout where there was a multi occupant men’s room with a urinal and a stall, and a single occupant ladies room. To try to ease the pain on overcrowded men’s rooms the company made the single occupant women’s room into a gender neutral bathroom.
A number of women raised hell about the message that sends to women. Never mind that women virtually never have to wait for a free toilet while the men constantly do. The women’s feelings on the matter were more important, and the sign was changed back.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
Realized I didn’t address your first question: video does exist, but suffers the same problem that it can be dismissed out of hand as a hoax.
Here’s video of a spontaneously bleeding and pulsing host contained in a monstrance: https://aleteia.org/2019/06/17/this-eucharistic-host-was-filmed-bleeding-and-pulsating-like-a-heart-on-fire
And video of an apparently beating host: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251891/a-new-eucharistic-miracle-in-mexico
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
I hate to respond with “read this sizable book” but I am curious how a skeptical medical doctor like yourself would respond to it.
I was intrigued by these miracles and so read A Cardiologist Examines Jesus by Dr. Franco Serafini. I came away with the impression that this would be too hard a hoax to coordinate and the odds of congruence are between miracles are very small, and so there’s very likely something to them.
He comes to the subject with a faithful but also rigorous attitude and dismisses at least one of the miracles he investigates.
It’s a fairly easy read, matter of fact and right to the point.
After reading it I searched for refutations and found nothing convincing. These are extraordinary claims, but it seems they don’t get serious consideration on account of that alone, not on the details being incorrect.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
There are human specific proteins that can be identified independent of DNA sequencing.
Grok suggests that it’s likely a failure to replicate the DNA via PCR that is at fault, with the report on the Buenos Aires miracle citing this explicitly, with other reports being more vague about failures to sequence.
My conversation with Grok also reminded me that the Eucharistic miracle blood type of AB is also the same observed in the Shroud of Turin.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
uncontrovertable evidence
There's the rub, right? Miracles tend to be one-off historical events, not laws of nature you can subject to experiment, so you end up having to rely on witnesses. And witnesses are easily dismissed as liars or suffering from delusions.
Though even the kinds of miracles that can be literally put under a microscope seem not uncontrovertable. Take Eucharistic miracles for which there are consistent findings that the material being examined is human heart tissue, that had been subjected to great stress, was very recently alive, of blood type AB, and with DNA that can't be sequenced. Some of the folks that investigate these even contracted with secular labs to do sample processing to avoid the appearance of bias.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
The S&P 500 is now up on the day.
I wonder if the drop was retail traders scared by the news into a sell off and the recovery institutions eating their lunch.
AFAICT there have been no noises made that the tariffs won’t actually be put into effect. Just lots of concessions being offered by other countries.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
FWIW I’m still getting plenty of recruiter chatter as a backend / infra engineer, but that’s with about twenty years experience, half at FAANG. I’d say a plurality of the reachouts, when the end employer is identifiable, are in the financial sector.
Though yeah, it won’t be long before I’m managing a team of AI agents, and then eventually an AI is managing a team of AI agents that replaced me.
I don’t know what to tell my two year old career wise, I’m focused on giving him a good moral foundation first. He has signs of being the kind of student I was, so I think he’ll probably figure it out better than I could. My exposure to upper class jobs was almost all via television, so my ambitions were to be either a doctor or lawyer. I had considered computer science as a fit for my natural talents, but Newsweek convinced me that was a dead end industry and all the jobs are moving to India. Then I spent about a week in a hospital with a serious injury, decided I didn’t want to spend any more time in a hospital, and chose a major suitable for law school.
And then ended up as a software engineer anyway.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
Outside of the companies that are charging for access to their model, it seems few even have monetization plans. It feels a lot like early days of Facebook or YouTube where we're just driving growth and we'll figure out monetization later.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
Does your wife not seek you out for opening too-tight lids on jars?
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
Well there's an important distinction in that one is pursuit of competitive greatness and the other is entirely inwardly focused.
Though perhaps we split the baby and make transition a competitive activity. If you're on the varsity squad, which means you've put in your time and are able to trick a panel of judges into believing you're actually the gender you identify as, you get access to the best equipment and medical interventions.
If you're JV, well good for you, here's a used dress, a Party City wig, some Maybelline, and a couple of balloons.
Parents could rest easier if they could take a look at their kid and know that even if they were susceptible to some dangerous ideas, there's no way they could physically pass as the opposite gender. Or, you just know your kid doesn't have the grit to actually make it to varsity even if they have the figure for it.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
Districts also have professional development budgets that firms are competing for.
In my district every Wednesday is an early release day so teachers can participate in professional development. This has got to be the only job in the world where 10% of your time is spent on training and you only work 9 months a year.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
I think the person you're replying to is referring to the whole language approach to reading. The popular implementations of this eschew phonics entirely, and instruct kids to use only context clues and pictures to figure out what word is on the page. The "Sold A Story" podcast dives deep into the origins of this and its many failures.
It's a great podcast, highly recommended. Among other things I learned that even this topic is culture war. George W. Bush's push for phonics based instruction was resisted hard by educators, apparently because it was coming from W.
Also very revealing in how much of education is driven by trendiness and personality cults. A dumb fad like Reading Recovery can damage a whole generation.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
Well this has been an impossible problem for a long time, at least as long as Byzantium deployed its first generals.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
Maybe the Trump team knows they have a malfeasance case in USIP sponsoring overseas violence other intellegience agency shenanigans.
If the board members stay fired, they keep their secrets.
If they press the issue, then Trump is forced to show his cards.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
Not deporting a high profile person openly advertising their illegal status sends the message that you can be shielded from deportation by becoming a pro illegal immigration activist.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
The Department of Education doesn’t tell states, districts, schools, colleges, or any other institutions how they have to educate anyone. But it has always insisted that they try.
Off the top of my head:
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Title I funding incentivizes concentrating impoverished students in great enough numbers to qualify for the funding. There’s a cliff where the funds just go away. I’ve seen this play out when our district was redrawing school boundaries, it was the top priority.
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Dear Colleagues
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Making funds contingent on keeping kids in or out of the proper locker rooms
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Throwing ESSR funds at districts that almost universally used them to fund new permanent programs and then begged for more funding when the always-temporary funds expired
There’s just a ton more strings attached funds that lead to administrative bloat and generally incentivize schools to chase things that aren’t all that useful except that they get rewarded with funds
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
It's the perogative of the executive to conduct foreign affairs, with explicit carveouts to Congress for the approval of treaties, appointment of ambassadors, and declarations of war.
For example, the normalization of diplomatic relations with China was executive action, both by Nixon and Carter.
So it is within the President's authority to say "I recognize Tren de Aragua as a competing government engaged in civil war against the internationally recognized government of Venezuala. And I further assert that they are sending agents to invade our territory."
I suppose this would also open up to all of the gang members to prosecution under FARA.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
I guess the first priority is making the site self-sustaining.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
I think the “ghost city” narrative may have been built out of ignorance, perhaps deliberate, of how China redevelops its land.
In the West cities tend to scale up one project at a time. Typically a single property, sometimes an entire block when the footprint of a building necessitates it.
In China they raze and rebuild entire districts at a time. Imagine San Francisco deciding that the Tenderloin was due for redevelopment. They move everyone out into temporary housing. They flatten every single building. And they build an entirely new set of streets and buildings.
As construction nears completion you have what appears to be a brand new yet eerily depopulated city. There might be a few buildings coming online but residents move in slowly. Perfect for Western media to take pictures of and within bounded distrust represent as a newly constructed city sans residents.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
The worst offense here is the deboosting of links. Under the old regime, liberals wanted you to only rely on what they considered credible sources of information. Musk doesn’t want you to read anything at all that is not in meme or tweet form.
That’s quite a leap. The more likely explanation is they are optimizing for time spent on X.
When people leave the app they aren’t consuming your ads and might not resume using your app for many hours or days.
Elon found himself with an unprofitable company and took a lot of drastic steps to get to profitability.
This is also parsimonious with Elon’s own recommendation for putting links in a reply. They don’t want people bouncing directly from feed to another surface.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
At least in my state there is financial incentive for districts to classify kids as special needs. They get more than double funding for each such child, though that amount diminishes as you climb above 16% special ed students: https://ospi.k12.wa.us/policy-funding/special-education-funding-and-finance/special-education-funding-washington-state
The penalty is a percentage multiplier applied to the total amount of extra funds, and it's possible to lose funds. There are two tiers of special ed students, one that pays out a 112% bonus, students who spend > 80% of their time in general ed, and another that pays out 106%, for students who spend less time than that in general ed.
In either case you start losing revenue at about 58% special ed. Well before that you'd be losing money since you'd need to actually spend some amount of those funds on special ed services.
Would not be surprised if 25% is the real break-even factoring in the need to spend on services.
Maybe in 20 years we’ll be able to know the truth here. But for now I just throw up my hands.
I can’t think of any honest broker of information that claims to have solid evidence either way. And the negative would be very difficult to show evidence for in any case.
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